Alternate Names: Kolufaup
Dialects: North Korowai, South Korowai. Dialects have high mutual intelligibility. Lexical similarity: 90% with dialects.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 3,500 (2007 P. de Vries). 3,000 monolinguals.
Language Use: Vigorous. All domains. All ages. Neutral to positive attitudes. Younger village speakers also use Indonesian [ind].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: Below 1% (2007 P. de Vries). Literacy rate in L2: Less than 1% in Indonesian (2007 P. de Vries).
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Indonesia
Other Comments: Traditional religion.